What are the indications for lumpectomy thyroid surgery? Indications for lumpectomy thyroid surgery include benign thyroid tumors, including unilateral or bilateral thyroid tumors, or nodular goiter requiring surgery, hyperthyroidism, and well-differentiated early thyroid cancer. The indications for surgery can be seen to include the vast majority of thyroid disorders in traditional surgery. Due to the limitations of the lumpectomy technique, giant goiters, intermediate to advanced thyroid cancer, and patients who have difficulty tolerating anesthesia are contraindications to this procedure. Advantages of lumpectomy The greatest advantage of lumpectomy over traditional open thyroid surgery is the significant cosmetic effect. Traditional open thyroid surgery has an incision of more than 10 cm in the neck, which inevitably leaves a scar after surgery and causes great psychological trauma to the patient, causing many patients to refuse surgery for fear of disfigurement and delaying treatment, especially for some malignant thyroid tumors. In contrast, lumpectomy thyroid surgery only requires a 0.5-1.0 cm incision in one of the three sites (breast, armpit, oral vestibule) to complete the thyroid surgery, and the surgical scar is invisible to outsiders after surgery.